Ballots to remain uncounted in MI and Stein blocked in Philly. Guest: Election integrity, law expert Paul Lehto says this proves 'only option is to get it right on Election Night'. Also: Trump taps climate denier, fossil-fuel tool for EPA...

...of The BRAD SHOW --- well, the lost half-hour, anyway --- will be available during tomorrow's rebroadcast, beginning at 12noon ET.

The half-hour lost was at the top of the fourth hour, so that would be 3pm ET (2pm CT, 1pm MT, 12noon PT - got it?). Including the Bright Eyes tune from NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

The glitch, we are told by the network, was due to some kind of "automatic language filter" that kicked in for unknown reasons, and the backup came (another hour from a previous show) automagically kicked in.

Hear what you missed tomorrow! And thanks all for the support in every respect! Thanks WP for keeping things rolling here when I can't!

May 6th, 2005 12:47 pm
Controversial lobbyist had close contact with Bush team

WASHINGTON (AP) ó In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.

I just ran across one of my favorite characters in my reading... the Greek god Apollo.

"Apollo is an image of that hope and faith which spring not from any one person's striving, but from all of us, a human inheritance of nobility and determination which can restore a man's faith in himself because it is also a faith in the meaningfulness and purpose of the human journey.
Apollo symbolizes that indomitable spirit that has always struggled against superstition, helplessness, ignorance, and bondage to fatalism and desapair."

Citizens in a parliamentary system don't directly elect their Prime Minister. They elect their local officials. Their local officials in turn vote for the Prime Minister. The Labour party took a beating in the elections and their overwhelmingly strong majority took a beating. They lost
a lot of Labour seats to the Liberal dems. If it were up to the citizens of the UK, Tony Blair would have been voted to be put on a stretcher.

re #9: anyone can post book reviews at amazon. Most of the so-called reviews attached to left-leaning non-fiction is written by freeper trolls who have never even read the books. Hardly worth reading, let alone discussing.

Darn it, I missed the "less than two" bootlicking troll(s). By the looks of things I didn't miss much though, huh? Was (s)he upset over gonzales' torture policies? bush/abramoff gop fundraising scandal? Apollo? Too bad "factchecker", there is a bit more I'd like to share with you.

Do you remember reading (you are allowed to read, correct?) the DOJ Interrogation Bybee Memo(PDF)? Within part 1 of this document is the following block of statements:

"We conclude that for an act to constitute torture as defined in Section 2340, it must inflict pain that is difficult to endure. Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent to intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death. For purely mental pain or suffering to amount to torture under Section 2340, it must result in significant psychological harm of significant duration, e.g., lasting for months or even years. We conclude that the mental harm also must result from one of the predicate acts listed in the statute, namely: threats of imminent death; threats of infliction of the kind of pain that would amount to physical torture; infliction of such physical pain as a means of psychological torture; use of drugs or other procedures designed to deeply disrupt the senses, or fundamentally alter an individualís personality; or threatening to do any of these things to a third party."

Tell me now factchecker zinger, why is your hero still running his mouth condoning torture while getting beat over the head with facts like this?